Ride along with the 'Bulldog': ODOT pusher trucks keep Interstate 5 open in southern Oregon

Pusher truck 'Bulldog' helps keep I-5 open and freight on the move during severe winter conditions on Siskiyou Summit, the highest pass on I-5 in southern Oregon.

[leslie]

Boy, I could watch this guy for hours. What a professional driver.

[Goldenstu]

Instead of shafting the trucker by making him call a wrecker wich will cost his company or him thousands of dollars the state DOT is actually helping out!! 👏👏👏 Oregon DOT rocks, thank you❤

[motoxguy]

Finally! A truck driver that deserves to call himself a “professional”! Rare breed.

[kb]

"Thank you very much, Sir. That helped a bunch" loved that.

[NGH]

My dad used to do this, over this same stretch of I-5, back when it was a new road in the late '60s. He worked for LASME freight, out of Yreka, driving a company-built single-screw Freightliner cabover, with a massive concrete block mounted on the frame rails right over the drive axle. He said he had a lot of fun doing this job.

[quindeman]

I had no idea that such a thing even existed.

[itruck]

This has to be an extremely satisfying job....

[EricFortuneJr.]

I know these guys appreciate him. Time is money in the trucking business and it sucks to be late for scheduled delivery. He saved these drivers and the companies a lot of money.

[Josh-of-all-Trades]

We appreciate what you do to help us out. We don't like being stuck there either!

[callumh]

The men who deal with nasty weather while driving a truck with a load of valuable cargo are deserving of praise.

[AfrewSpines]

1:50 “A lot of these drivers realize that momentum is actually their friend.”

Unfortunately, a lot of non-commercial drivers don’t. Every Winter I see countless people dumping their car off the side of the road or sliding backwards down it because they chicken out at the top of the hill and press the brakes instead of keeping on the gas. Keeping traction while still moving is a LOT easier than trying to gain new traction from a dead stop.

[TheRealMasonYoung]

Nice to see Clark Griswold's boss helping others out during the winter season.

[gunners]

Legend has it his wipers are still on high

[koheartsgpadatslocos]

You guys do great work on those passes, I go over this one twice every week, Thank you for your dedication to keeping the roads flowing, it'd be nice if CalTrans learned from y'all 👍👍

[michaelthomas]

Best thing I've seen about OR in a long time. Great work ODOT!!!

[blakeroni]

Can you all do a Livestream for part of a shift sometime? You might be surprised how many people would tune in, especially if there is a copilot in the cab responding to viewers questions!

[edwinhsingmaster]

As young adults who worked on our cars, we had floor jacks and repaired sets of chains. To make pocket money when it snowed, and we knew things on the Siskiyous were tumultuous, we'd grab the floor jack and chain-up a few cars. Next we'd head to Callahan's interchange and watch the semis trap car against the guard rail, drink a beer or two, and laugh all the way down Old 99, back to Ashland. What a mess it was sometimes. No one got physically hurt, and always felt sorry for the staters and the wreckers, who had to untangle the mess. 1964-6.

[adrummer]

WOW ODOT actually getting something done in under 10 years! Amazing!!

[Kevnadian]

This needs to be a TV show please make more episodes

[Chevyxdawg]

Hats off to the Odot and all those truck Y'all do an amazing job!!!!